Oceanside school lockdown over

OCEANSIDE -- A lockdown at Del Rio Elementary School Wednesday
ended at 1:14 p.m. after officers searching for two suspects in a
Pizza Hut robbery cleared the area.

The suspects, who were reportedly armed with an unknown type of
gun, fled after robbing a Pizza Hut at 611 N. Redondo about 11:30
a.m., said Oceanside police Sgt. Leonard Mata.

The school was placed in lockdown about 12 p.m.. as police
searched for the two suspects.

Nobody was taken into custody and the search was called off, a
dispatcher with the Oceanside Police Department reported.

Teachers at the school, at 5207 E. Parker St., were asked to
keep students inside as a precaution while the area was searched
with dogs, Mata said.

A teacher from the school, Annie Chambers, said at 1:15 p.m.
that the school had been in lockdown for about an hour and a half.
All the lights are out, she said, the classroom doors are locked
and students are on the floor. Most of the students were in the
library or cafeteria, a caller said.

Chambers said the students would normally have been released
around 12:30 p.m. today because of a minimum day.